Forgotten, Suppressed, Denied : The Forging of Israel's National Memory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margalit, Meir.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

Veiled in silence and oblivion, certain chapters of Israeli history conceal a submerged reality waiting to be uncovered.This work argues that just below the surface of national history, entire episodes remain hidden--so much so that we might affirm: in the field of Israeli history, there is not a stone that, if lifted, will not expose a reality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

The Kind of Book This Is

The Book&amp

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s Objectives

The Politics Behind Remembrance and Forgetfulness

Between Historiography and Memorography

On the Connection Between Remembering and Forgetting

The Connection Between Memory and History

The Collective Memory

Structure

Chapter 1 Institutional Erasures and Manipulations

Blocking Subversive Memories

The Authorities as the Shapers of Collective Memory

Chapter 2 The Role of Academic Institutions in Erasing Irksome Memories

The Archive - The Site for Deletion

The Historian - An Agent of Memory

Chapter 3 Techniques for Obliterating Problematic Subjects

Overt Deletions

Covert Deletions

Determining the Hierarchy of Historical Subjects

Rhetoric in the Service of Forgetting

Typology of Rhetorical Manipulations

Rebellious Intractable Forgetting

Chapter 4 Forgetting, Obliterating, and Inventing Alternative Narratives

Deletion, Rewriting, and the Creation of an Alternative Narrative

Chapter 5 Memory and Forgetting at the Heart of the Zionist Idea

Erasing the individual

The obliterating of the local population

The erasure of the historical past

Chapter 6 Micro-Forgetting

The way of the world

A new generation erases all that has preceded it

Forgetting of the immigrant

Forgetting due to Zionist fervor

Therapeutic forgetting

Forgetting for personal reasons

Eradication for social reasons

National commitment

Erasure related to national shame

Erasures for nationalistic reasons

Forgetting of military events

Forgetting that vandalizes memory

Chapter 7 Macro-forgetting

Typology of Macro-Forgetting

Macro-Forgetting during the Period of the Yishuv

Persecution of the Communist Party activists.

The Affair of the Jewish Brigade

The Institution for Illegal Immigration

Chapter 8 Deletions under the Auspices of the State

Rewriting and Deletions during the War of Independence

The Architect of Erasures

Eradications in the IDF History Branch

Chapter 9 Deletions during the War of Independence and the first decade after the establishment of the state

The Few against the Many

Enlisting Holocaust Survivors in the War of Independence

Infiltrators or Fedayeen?

Retaliatory Acts

Incidents on the Syrian Border Instigated by Israel

The Martial Rule of Israeli Arabs

Population Transfer after the Establishment of the State: Expulsion of Majdal and of the Azazmeh Tribe

The Nasty Business and the Lavon Affair

The Sinai Campaign 1956

The Massacre at Kafr Qassim

The Melting Pot - An Instrument of Deletion and Unification

Concluding Chapter

The Issue of Knowledge and Understanding of Deeds

The Difficulty in Exposing the Suppressed Story

What the erasures teach us about the image of contemporary Israeli society

Suspending Memory. Why isn't the Public Willing to Grapple with the Past?

Bibliography

Archives

References

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-221232-0

9783112212325

OCLC:

1561173496